The X900C series features Sony's new
X1 image processor to render more colors and to scale HD and lesser sources up to 4K.
Not exact matches
What you do get, however, is detail from the
X1 Extreme
processor which Sony believes will pull out more detail in
images than other OLED TVs.
Sony's
X1 Extreme picture
processor features three key technologies which have a big impact on
image quality: Object Based HDR Remastering, which improves the precision of SDR upscaling for contrast and colour; Dual Database processing, which features Noise Reduction and Super Resolution processing, and Super Bit Mapping 4K HDR, the latest version of SBM which removes colour banding from lower bitrate content, like streaming services.
The
X1 processor does this by doing a real - time
image analysis of the input video signal and attempts to upscale the output to the best possible quality, depending on the amount of information the original holds.